DARDANELLE — The Dardanelle City Council heard at its meeting Monday a presentation from Dardanelle Police Chief Montie Sims regarding a policy that concerns his department’s handling of the mentally incapacitated and delirious.

The policy referenced incapacitated and delirious individuals as being in a state of “excited delirium.” The policy defines excited delirium as being “the state of extreme mental and physiological excitement characterized by extreme agitation, hyperthermia, hostility, exceptional strength, and endurance without fatigue.”

“Our officers have been running into these people more and more,” Sims said. “The city of Dardanelle has no policy through which to educate our peace officers in dealing with individuals that are mentally impaired. This would be a safeguard not only to our peace officers, but to the city of Dardanelle as well.”

According to Sims, this policy would educate officers in such a way their early responses will not involve the use of a deadly force. Instead, officers will be educated in the use of electronic control devices (ECD’s), also known as Tasers.

Also discussed at the council meeting was a resolution to condemn a property at 215 N. Fifth St. The property was deemed hazardous and dangerous to the public.

According to the report, the property was rotten, with exposed wiring, water damage, buckling floors and a backyard porch that was falling in, among many other things. Among other items discussed at Monday’s meeting:

• License requested to use fireworks during Fourth of July celebration.

• Permission to close Front Street from Quay to Locust streets from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. on July 4 was approved by the council.